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Quote by Virginia Woolf
As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it til

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall. – Virginia Woolf

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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Every secret of a writers soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. – Virginia Woolf

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A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end… but not necessarily in that order. – Jean Luc Godard

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. – Ray Bradbury

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